belief

first of all, happy thanksgiving everyone. =]

so, i've been thinking about belief recently. (as in yesterday and today =P) i realize that everyone believes in something. people with religion, obviously, believe in something. even if they don't know exactly what they're following in their religion, they believe that there's something right or worthwhile in their belief.

atheists, or at least the ones i know, seem to justify either their godless beliefs or their somewhat obnoxious denial of others' beliefs with science. but if you think about it, a good amount of science relies on faith. let's say for this blog that faith is believing in something without fully being aware of it. like in a god that is invisible, or, for scientific atheists, the subatomic, unseen particles that supposedly make up all of existence. right now, at least, we can't see molecules and atoms and photons and quarks, etc.

cells are supposed to be the building blocks of life, but we can't see them as cells. we see them as the compositions of cells. amoeba, squirrels, doves, people, trees, dust, everything is made up of something. mind you, i don't remember middle school science that well, so i may be mixing up some scientific terms, but bottom line, if you believe in those subatomic particles that we can't see, feel, or detect in any way, you have faith, in that you believe in something that you have no real proof of.

sometimes, i feel like religion can almost be more believable than science. so much of science deals with things we can't see, either because they're too small, too far away, outside of the spectrum of light which is visible to us, etc., but religion can be based on your experience, and what you feel in your heart. if miracles or inexplicable good things happen to you, belief can explain that, or rather, that can serve as proof of your belief.

the bottom line though, with both religion and science, is that we can't know everything about either. at least, not in a future that i can see happening any time soon. we can't see exactly what the inside of an atom looks like, we can't see God in his/her/their/its truest or natural form, we can't see Him act, we can't see atoms physically make up everything, but for those of us who have belief (virtually all of us), we trust that what we believe in does what is necessary for life to continue. so really, what right does anyone have to say "no, your god or gods don't exist because science has other explanations" if all of the forces and particles and waves that we use to explain everything are as physically invisible to us as a god. there's no way for us to fully know, so why don't we just accept each other's interpretations and live with them just being theories?